Glogster

Glogster is a website where you can create an online poster. Normally when you creating a poster you can only add some texts and images. But in Glogster you can add songs or even videos as well.. you can add you own videos and songs or embedded videos from youtube. Isn't it interesting? :) your poster can be more awesome with Glogster. Glogster is also a simple tool. If you want to add a video or a song, you can add it easily. I highly recommend you to use this tool especially if you want to make your classroom activities be more fun and interesting for your student! :)

I made this poster with my classmate, Emine Yildirar. Even though this is our first time using such a tool like this, we did not found any technical problem. For me, using my own creativity is a big challenge. I am not such a person with high creativity. But Emine helped me a lot. At first, we had brain storming to find any good idea then we started to find any pictures and videos from youtube. By the way, our poster is about "21st Century Communication". We said that 21st Century Communication is a communication based on technology. It is easier, simpler and somehow can make distance among people means nothing. But unfortunately, sometimes people might have a problem about their virtual and their reality. People tend to have more time with their gadget or having communication through gadget rather than with real people in real situation. That is all our thought about 21st Century Communication.. Lets Check our poster out! :)

Digital Storytelling

Hi! I would like to share you my digital storytelling that I made using windows video maker. Windows movie maker is such an easy tool to make a video. You can combine pictures, songs and video easier than any other tool. 

Well, actually this is not my first time using this tool. I did not have any technical problem when combining pictures, a song and a narration with my own voice. The only problem that I faced was embed the video to my blog. I think this is because the video's format is unacceptable for blog or maybe the size is too big.

The title of my story is 'friendship". In the story, I told the viewer about my best friends. Who are they, how we met and what it means to be friend. I divided my video into 4 parts. The first part is about my first best friend whom I met in the primary school. The second part is about my other best friends whom I met in the high school and then the third one is about best friends whom I met in Turkey. Finally the last part is about what it means to be friend in my opinion. Here is my story.. :)

The Puzzle Maker

Hi! I would like to share you about the puzzle that I made by using Discovery Education website. On the website I made two differences kind of puzzle. The first one is "Word Search Puzzle" and the second one is "Criss Cross Puzzle".

Word Search Puzzle is a puzzle box that is filled with alphabet. The topic of Word Search Puzzle is Animals. There are 10 names of the animal and these names are hidden among the alphabet. Then, the student are supposed to find all of them. See the image below!

On the Criss Cross Puzzle, the words being arranged horizontally or vertically on a grid of squares and blanks, one letter per square. The students are given clues in order to get that correct word and write those words on the blank squares. The topic of the puzzle is Professions & Jobs. See the image below!

Last but not least, I would like to say that this website is really useful and helpful. Besides it is easy to make, the process is not take too many time. So, I will definitely use this website to make some tasks on my future class..

Webquest

This time I would like to share to you about a webquest that I evaluated from the zunal webquest maker using webquest rubric. The webquest title is "Farm Animal" and this is an English language webquest for K-2 (kindergarden) learners.My evaluation referring to some categories such as overall aesthetic, introduction, task, process, resources and evaluation. Total point that I gave to this webquest is 43 of 50. There are several reason why I gave a good point on this webquest. 

Firstly, the webquest's overall visual appeal is good enough with some pictures on it and the navigation & flow of itself also seamless.There are no mechanical problem on it as well. Secondly, the introduction draw the lesson and the goal interestingly to the learner. By reading the introduction, the learners would have an enough idea what the lesson about. When we looking to the task, the task is doable and it's not limited in its significance to students' lives.

Then, the process of itself is really good. Each step is clearly stated so the learners would know exactly what to do next. The author use simple sentence and word so it seems easier for young learner to understand and complete the task. The resources that is given on the webquest is connected enough to the information that the students need. Besides it is meaningful, the sources that is given also fun for children. Lastly for the evaluation categories, the webquest is clearly stated the criteria for success in form of rubric. This rubric can help the student to know what the students must know and be able to accomplish he task.

To see the webquest that I evaluated you can click here.

My Wikispaces

This week I have a project to write on a Wikispaces page that already made by our teacher. On the Wikis we supposed to write an information about a book (can be our favorite book). 

I chose my favorite book, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I give some information about that book and influence the other readers to read The Da Vinci Code too. Well, until I finished my project I do not have so many idea about Wikis, I mean whether I will use it on my future classroom or not because I feel like I do not pretty much understand about Wikis. I have a little bit confused when using wikis maybe because this is the first time fro me and I am not familiar with it. My big anxiety was when I wanted to add a video from youtube. Firstly, I tried to add the video by using hyperlink but it did not succeed. After that I tried to contact some friends to ask about it but unfortunately no one answered :( then I tried to find some tutorial video on the youtube and... voila! that is how I solved my problem!

Although I found it was hard at the beginning, but I am quite satisfied with my effort on this work. Here is my page on Wikis, click here. 

My First Podcast

On this podcast project I worked with my classmate named Emine Yıldırar.

We did not have any serious difficulty while making this podcast. It was exciting actually because we recorded our voice for several times to find which one was the best to be chosen. We really enjoyed it even sometimes we laughed at our own voice especially when we made mistakes. This project really help me to control my voice while speaking and help me also with my articulation. I will definitely use this program with my own student in the future so that my student can also take the advantages of it.

Here is my first podcast. Just click play on it to listen;

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Welcome!

Hi readers welcome to my blog!

Actually this is my first time using a blog. I got a little bit confused at first about managing my own profile. But at last I found it was cool! Well, I am a student of English Language Teaching Department and I will share so many things about English Language Teaching on this blog..

Hopefully the information in this blog also can be useful for you and you can leave a comment on every post that I wrote, so that we can share our idea about these topics..